Care assistant jobs in Solihull

Skills for Care recorded 3,400 filled care worker posts in Solihull in 2024/25, out of 3,500 care worker posts in total. Around 150 of those care worker posts in Solihull were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Solihull.

The care worker role is 53.1% of the 6,400 filled adult social care posts in Solihull. Turnover in the care worker role in Solihull ran at 27.3%. New starters were 29.2% of care worker posts in Solihull over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Solihull ranks 13th of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 5,450 filled care worker posts, against 3,400 in Solihull. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Solihull workforce, the same release records 325 filled senior care worker posts, 200 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Solihull was £12.02 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Solihull only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Solihull earn a median of £42,587 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Solihull at £25,600, £16,987 below it.